The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim from Bethesda Softworks moved...
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim from Bethesda Softworks moved up four to become the best-selling game in the U.K. its fifth week available, according to the Association for U.K. Interactive Entertainment (UKIE) Games Charts compiled by GfK Chart-Track for the…
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week ended Saturday. Sales of the Xbox 360, PS3 and PC game soared 145 percent from the prior week, driven by retail price cutting, UKIE said. Activision’s multiplatform Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 dipped one to No. 2 in its fifth week as sales fell 7 percent from the prior week. Ubisoft, Electronic Arts and Nintendo each had two games in the top 10. Ubisoft’s were Just Dance 3 for the Wii, 360 and PS3, up one at No. 3 in its ninth week as sales jumped 67 percent, and Assassin’s Creed: Revelations for the 360, PS3 and PC, down two, No. 5, fourth week, sales down 5 percent. Its ABBA: You Can Dance for the Wii entered the top 20 at No. 20. EA’s two games in the top 10 were the multiplatform FIFA 12, down two, No. 4, 11th week despite sales growing 24 percent, and Battlefield 3 for the 360 and PS3, up three, No. 6, seventh week, sales up 30 percent. Nintendo’s were its Professor Layton and the Last Specter for the DS, No. 7 again in the game’s third week, sales up 5 percent, and Mario Kart 7 for the 3DS, down two, No. 10, second week, sales down 1 percent. Its Super Mario 3D Land for the 3DS fell out of the top 10 in week four, dropping two to No. 12. Rounding out the top 10 were THQ’s Saints Row: The Third for the 360 and PS3, down two, No. 8, fourth week, sales down 2 percent, and Sony Computer Entertainment’s 3D Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception for the PS3, up seven, No. 9, sixth week. Sales of the Sony game soared 81 percent from the prior week, allowing it to return to the top 10 after an absence of three weeks, “thanks to some price promotional activity,” UKIE said.